COMMON GAMING-HOUSES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20022, 12 February 1927, Page 17

COMMON GAMING-HOUSES.

CHINESE PREMISES RAIDED. TWO PI'OTIITUTORis FINED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, February 11. Two Chinese, Dheong Oak ami Wong Tic. pleaded guilty in the Police Court to a •'•barge of keeping common gaming bouses at Grey street. The charges were Inured together, but as the accus'd spoke different dialects two difi'erex Chinese interpreters were required. Chief Detective Cummings , :.M that in consequence of complaints n :a market gardeners that their men wont to tin; accused’s premises to gamble when taking carts to the city, detectives pad’ a visit to the premises and found gambling going on. but not to any great ex-rut. There was not a great deal of money there. About la Chinese were found in Oak’s iioirau and there was no suggestion that women or Europeans frequented the premises. Oak had been before the court once previously, having been lined £lO for a similar offence in February, 1925. Wong Tie staled through his interpreter that lie had been in occupation of the premises only a short time. He was a hard-working man, but had been in ill-health and was prevented from doing manual labour. Mr E. C. Gotten, S.M., fined Cheong Oak £ls. and Wong Tie £7 10s, with interpreter's fee (£1 Is) in each case.